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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 1
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Elimelech and family go to Moab because of famine—Marriages—Death of father and sons—Ruth the Moabitess, her husband having died, remains constant to Naomi—They come to Beth-lehem.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
Now</span> it came to pass in the days when the <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 2: 16; Mosiah 29: 44 (11-44).">judges</a> ruled, that there was a famine in the land.  And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
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And the name of the man <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/2a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB My God is king.">Elimelech</a>, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, <sup>b</sup><a href="ruth/1/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 35: 19.">Ephrathites</a> of Beth-lehem-judah.  And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
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And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
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And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one <i>was</i> Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
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And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
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&#182; Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had visited his people in giving them bread.
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Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
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And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> grant you that ye may find rest, each <i>of</i> <i>you</i> in the house of her husband.  Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
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And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me?  <i>are</i> there yet <i>any</i> <i>more</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 25: 5.">sons</a> in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
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Turn again, my daughters, go <i>your</i> <i>way;</i> for I am too old to have an husband.  If I should say, I have hope, <i>if</i> I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
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Would ye tarry for them till they were grown?  would ye stay for them from having husbands?  nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> is gone out against me.
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And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/14a" mark="a" type="F" title="IE held fast to; TG Example.">clave</a> unto her.
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And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
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And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, <i>or</i> to return from <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within.">following</a> after thee: for whither thou goest, I will <sup>b</sup><a href="ruth/1/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Loyalty.">go</a>; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy <sup>c</sup><a href="ruth/1/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">people</a> <i>shall be</i> my people, and thy God my <sup>d</sup><a href="ruth/1/16d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Conversion.">God</a>:
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Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> do so to me, and more also, <i>if</i> <i>ought</i> but death part thee and me.
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When she saw that she was <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Commitment; TG Courage; TG Perseverance; TG Steadfastness.">stedfastly</a> minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
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&#182; So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem.  And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, <i>Is</i> this Naomi?
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And she said unto them, Call me not <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Pleasant.">Naomi</a>, call me <sup>b</sup><a href="ruth/1/20b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE a name given to Naomi by herself, which means ‘bitter, ‘ or ‘very sad.’">Mara</a>: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
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I went out full, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath brought me home again empty: why <i>then</i> call ye me Naomi, seeing the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath <sup>a</sup><a href="ruth/1/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR humbled me (so also in the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate).">testified</a> against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
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So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
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